Sebastian Vettel is one of the greatest athletes I know, and an incredible human being. I'm ridden with social anxiety but when at an F1 race working with my team, Sebastian saw me, started joking around with me and made me feel at ease. It was a wonderful moment for me ☺️
F1 does love Seb, I promise! ❤️ Top 10 moments of Sebastian Vettel brilliance will be out tomorrow. One of our editors are just making the final touches now ☺️
I still can't believe I get to edit race highlights of the sport I love most, and as I'm a nerd for numbers, here's our most viewed highlights of 2021 from YouTube alone:
Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 12.7m
Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 12.1m
Bahrain 🇧🇭 8.6m
Hungary 🇭🇺 8.4m
Emilia Romagna 🇮🇹 8.3m
15 minutes of unheard team radios, new angles, and Sebastian Vettel pulling off stunning overtakes all over the track - and this is just from my half of Radio Rewind! Catch the full episode on F1 TV this evening 🍿😀
First time meeting the Ferrari drivers - such nice guys! Accidentally called Charles by his surname during filming and Seb's like "you don't call him that, his surname?? Now I call you Mr Smith!" 😂 Life has peaked!
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Come on Damon, if we wanted to hide the video we'd have taken it down from YouTube and F1TV where it gets much more exposure... Videos get removed from social media all the time automatically because of copyright.
Almost 10 million views on the Abu Dhabi YouTube race highlights and we're not even 48 hours on yet! So wonderful seeing such popularity for a sport that growing up everyone would tell me to shut up about 😄
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So I managed to beat the social anxiety and read my eulogy to my mum at the funeral! Even though you aren't with me now, you're still helping me mum ❤️
One little moment even got me in a bit of trouble... 😬 When Max's radio glitched, I thought I'd glitch up the name ident top-right with one of the frames showing my name 😄
Kimi Raikkonen
20 Race Victories
18 Pole Positions
46 Fastest Laps
100 Podium Finishes
1 World Drivers Championship
...and still counting
1 incredible career that will be remembered forever
Formula 1 is going to miss Kimi Raikkonen 👏
I'm going to have a go at picking, in my opinion, 10 moments of his absolute brilliance - and I agree just having 10 moments is not serving him justice! I want to give a very honourable mention to his off-track work too, making the world a much better place ❤️
I've suffered from depression and social anxiety for almost a decade now, and it's a real fucking bitch. Sending my love to everyone else who is effected by mental health ❤️
#MentalHealthAwarenessDay
1, Winning 9 races in a row at the end of the 2013 season (including India & Singapore). This record will never be beaten - neither Hamilton or Schumacher could achieve this. Singapore 2013 - only needed one lap in Q3, got pole and then disappeared into the distance. Dominant 👏
Ok so just outside the top 10 I have: Azerbaijan 2021, Germany 2019, Monaco 2008, China 2017 and Turkey 2020. If you think these should have made it, well turn it just shows how ****** amazing he is! I feel bad leaving all of these out FYI.
Sebastien Loeb - the greatest motorsport athlete of all time - wins in Monte-Carlo!🐐And congrats to Isabelle Galmiche on becoming the first female winner since 1982👑 Love the
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My first ever F1 race was Brazil 2003 and won over by just how bloody amazing Kimi Raikkonen was, I started loving the sport from then on! Kimi has been my man ever since and I'm really going to miss him in 2022 ❤️ Happy retirement, champ! 🏆
Radio Rewind is back, and we're going further back than we've ever gone before!
Enjoy all the chaos of the 2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, including Verstappen being sassy with his engineer...
@ItsAFozzy
A producer will research and write the script, but the moments and ranking will likely be debating between a few different people. The VO is recorded by our VO artist, while one editor puts it all together and a graphics designer fires over any graphics required for the edit!
I still have nightmares about the 15 or so extra races Kimi Raikkonen should have won at, had it not been for engine blowouts, tyre failures, oil spillages, being crashed into... 🙃
2 Italy 2008. I mean this is silly Seb. What are you doing winning a race in a Toro Rosso? Pole position and race victory against much superior cars. Marvelous!
Jean Michel is arguably the 🐐 and one of the nicest people you'll ever meet! Fun fact though, he's actually celebrating his shot and not the Red Bull pit stop 😄 He's a proud man, and it's so nice to see him love his job that much 🔥
I can see Max being champion again in 2023, but I can also see Ferrari being more of a threat and Mercedes getting right back into the mix again! This year could be a 2010-style fight for the title with multiple teams in it to the end 😁
Rubbish, the highlights are gonna be great. Here's my current plan...
Lap 1
DRS disabled, technical issues
Shot of Robin Raikkonen
Verstappen makes joke on radio
Chequered flag
3 Abu Dhabi 2010. Everyone was talking about Alonso and Webber, while Seb just minded his own business, dominated everyone, and won the race to secure his first title. He made it look so easy in the end 🔥 Champion!
4 Brazil 2012. Wow, I mean what can you say. He gets smashed to the back at the start, and has to recover to the front in a badly damaged car to win... and you know what, he only goes and does it doesn't he 👏 Incredible!
5 Malaysia 2015. In only his second race for Ferrari, Seb outperforms the car to take the win - beating both of the dominant Mercedes drivers. Sublime!